HB 1820 Summary

• Requires fiscal impact statements for any bill or resolution with potential direct adverse fiscal impact on Oklahoma's correctional system, identifying estimated fiscal impact and revenue sources.

• Mandates that the Speaker of the House and President Pro Tempore of the Senate prepare impact statements, notify bill authors, and make statements available 24 hours before committee and final adoption votes.

• Prohibits bills with direct adverse fiscal impact on the correctional system from being reported out of committee or acted upon without a prepared fiscal impact statement.

• Delays implementation of bills determined to have direct adverse fiscal impact on the state correctional system until July 1 of the following calendar year.

• Defines "direct adverse fiscal impact" as the cost to the state correctional system from mandatory sentencing statutes that require new or additional correctional resources without providing full revenue funding.